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Iqbal Quadir and Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of One Laptop per Child, debate the merits of technology in the developing world.

Categories: Bottom-up Development, Education, Entrepreneurship, Information and Communication Technology

Bartling talks with farmers at a Physalis Plantation in Boyaca, Colombia

Bartling talks with farmers at a Physalis Plantation in Boyaca, Colombia

No point reinventing the wheel

Article in African Business discusses Legatum Center and its inaugural conference.

Categories: Africa, Cambridge, Information and Communication Technology, Innovation Investment

Legatum Center announces MIT seed grant recipients

13 teams of MIT students receive support for innovative projects in over 10 countries

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MIT News Office Article

 

Legatum Fellow, Nada Hashmi, speaking about entrepreneurship in developing nations at the KAUST Global Event in Saudi Arabia, Jan. 2009.

Legatum Fellow, Nada Hashmi, speaking about entrepreneurship in developing nations at the KAUST Global Event in Saudi Arabia, Jan. 2009.

Categories: Entrepreneurship, Fellows

Legatum Center announces seed grants for MIT students

MIT undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply for up to $2,000 in funding to support projects investigating the development of for-profit businesses in low-income countries during the 2008-2009 IAP session.

Categories: Entrepreneurship, News

The Semantics of Poverty

Managing Director Michael Maltese writes about the need to change the terms of the discussion on global poverty and progress.

Categories: Foreign Aid

Nobel economists support different development path

Entrepreneurship can be powerful tool against poverty: MIT News Office article on the Progress Through Innovation Conference.

Categories: Economics , Entrepreneurship

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